Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Placenames, and Faeric SuperstitionsChapman & Hall Limited, 1920 - 894 páginas |
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... worship by the Church are euphemisms for the bald fact that Christianity , finding it impracticable 果 Plouaret . to wean the heathen from their obdurate beliefs , made the best of the situation by decreeing its feasts to coin- cide ...
... worship by the Church are euphemisms for the bald fact that Christianity , finding it impracticable 果 Plouaret . to wean the heathen from their obdurate beliefs , made the best of the situation by decreeing its feasts to coin- cide ...
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... worship , tree - worship , and the veneration paid to innumerable birds and beasts was largely based upon sym- bolism . In symbolism alone can one find any rational explanation for the intricacies of those ancient mysteries , the debris ...
... worship , tree - worship , and the veneration paid to innumerable birds and beasts was largely based upon sym- bolism . In symbolism alone can one find any rational explanation for the intricacies of those ancient mysteries , the debris ...
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... worship , if only it could be shown that there were at any time intimate and direct relations between Britain and Phoenicia . The historical evidence , such as it is , of this once - supposed connection , having been weighed and found ...
... worship , if only it could be shown that there were at any time intimate and direct relations between Britain and Phoenicia . The historical evidence , such as it is , of this once - supposed connection , having been weighed and found ...
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... worship was con- ducted around small caves situated in the side of hills . This is precisely the position of Minnis Rock which is situated in a valley running up from Hastings to St. Helens . " It is , " says the local guide - book ...
... worship was con- ducted around small caves situated in the side of hills . This is precisely the position of Minnis Rock which is situated in a valley running up from Hastings to St. Helens . " It is , " says the local guide - book ...
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... that St. Paul's , standing on the summit of Ludgate Hill or dun , occupies the site of a more ancient shrine dedicated to Diana , i.e. , Luna . Kristna 1 - worship is predominant , is cruciform , 104 [ CHAP . ARCHAIC ENGLAND.
... that St. Paul's , standing on the summit of Ludgate Hill or dun , occupies the site of a more ancient shrine dedicated to Diana , i.e. , Luna . Kristna 1 - worship is predominant , is cruciform , 104 [ CHAP . ARCHAIC ENGLAND.
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according Akerman Alban ancient archæology Avebury Bards barrow Biddenden Bona Dea Britain British Britons Cabiri called cave Celtic Celts centre Chislehurst Caves Christian Iconography Didron church circle coins connection connoted Cornish Cornwall Cretan Crete cross curious dene holes divine Druids earth Elphin emblem England English equated Etruria evidently fact fairy Father feet festival figures fire Folklore Gaulish giant Gnostic goddess Golden Golden Legend Greek Hill Holy illustrated implied Ireland Irish island Janus John King known land legend little doubt London Lord Maiden Mary Max Müller means meant megalithic modern Mother mystic mythology neighbourhood neighbouring once originally pagan parish place-name prehistoric probably Queen radically represented river rock Roman sacred saint Sancreed says seemingly Skeat stone Stonehenge Street suggested supposed symbol Tarchon term to-day town tradition tree Troy Wales Welsh wheel whence White Horse word worship
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Página 625 - And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God, and prophets. For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
Página 185 - He hath showed thee, -O man, what is good. And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Página 246 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together...
Página 488 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me: I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.
Página 791 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Página 75 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 826 - And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them : for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.
Página 185 - Who hate the good, and love the evil ; who pluck off' their skin from off them, and their flesh from off' their bones ; who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them ; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron...